We are used to hearing politicians use flowery language, but Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama just took it to a whole new level. In a statement that had the entire tech world doing a double-take, he announced that Diella, the country's Minister of State for AI, is "pregnant" and expecting "83 children."

Before you start googling "can robots have babies," let’s clarify: Diella is an AI. She is not human. She doesn’t have a body, let alone a womb. So, what on earth is going on?

The "Mother" of All Metaphors

It turns out, the "pregnancy" was a (very strange) metaphor for a major software update.

Diella, who was appointed earlier this year to oversee public procurement and fight corruption, is being expanded. The "83 children" are actually 83 new specialized AI assistants—one for every single member of the ruling Socialist Party in Parliament.

The idea is that these "digital offspring" will handle the grunt work for the MPs:

• Summarizing long laws and debates.

• Digging up data for speeches.

• Tracking local issues in their districts.

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They are called "children" because they all feed data back to "Mother Diella," creating a massive hive-mind of government intelligence.

Brilliant or Dystopian?

The reaction to this news has been a mix of fascination and nervous laughter.

On one hand, it is a brilliant way to cut through bureaucracy. Imagine an MP who instantly knows every statistic about their city because their AI assistant pulled it from the cloud in seconds. It could make governance faster, cheaper, and more transparent.

On the other hand, the language is... unsettling. Humanizing software to this degree ("she is pregnant," "the children will know their mother") blurs the line between tool and colleague in a way that makes many people uncomfortable. It forces us to ask: do we want our governments to function like a family of algorithms?

The Human Takeaway

Regardless of how you feel about AI in politics, you have to give it to Albania for capturing our attention. In an era where most government tech announcements are boring PDFs, they managed to get the whole world talking about public procurement software just by using the word "pregnant."

Whether Diella and her 83 "kids" will actually solve corruption or just create a very crowded digital nursery remains to be seen. But one thing is for sure: the future of politics is going to be anything but boring.